This Week's New Album Releases (2/22/11)

Each week, hundreds of albums get released. We chose 10 we think are worthy of your time, from Portland chamber-pop to a Platinum-selling British diva....  read more

Toro y Moi: Underneath The Pine

This is not the bedroom-project we heard in 2010. Underneath The Pine has Chaz Bundick coming together like an externalized band. “Got Blinded” and “How I Know” has Bundick sighing in the same romanticist chirp as Stuart Murdoch, the garbled funk of “New Beat” and “Still Sound” naturally advances his chillwave designation, and occasionally, like on “Good Hold,” he resigns to a frigid piano for a simple, stormy love-ballad. Airy indie pop was not the obvious choice for Toro y Moi, but Bundick pulls it off with a confounding amount of grace.  read more

Soapbox: Chillwave of Mutilation

Chillwave is a nebulous descriptor, which might explain why the genre has no real identity...  read more

Watch Paste's Interview With Toro y Moi

Paste sat down with Chaz Bundick (A.K.A. Toro y Moi) on a cold, rainy night before his performance at Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn. He talked to us about how much he loves the South, the first record he ever bought and his undying love for Pet Sounds, amongst other things....  read more